Oil City pickups

02/09/2026

Oh the good news is I still supply Canada :-) Oil City Pickups and Charles III as head of state too ... you lucky, lucky folks!

02/09/2026

Sadly I'm still having to explain why, for the moment, Oil City no longer supplies pickups to the United States. The main reason for this is the Tariff system imposed by the US - which is expensive and difficult to negotiate. We are a tiny company and export to no other country in the world is as difficult or as unpredictable. The unpredictability is due to decisions on tariffs and indeed all foreign policy being made on a whim of largely one person, and that uncertainty is not something I am prepared to burden my own business with.

24/08/2026

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Well the interesting pickups have been building up in the clearout corner - I'm not going to give too much away yet, but there are some supe

12/08/2026

It seems as though many of you are still making a pigs ear of separating the cloth covered core and the braided outer shield of vintage style humbucker and P90 hookup wire. For those of you who want to learn to do it the pro way ... I've done a totally free short article on the oil City Patreon site! Don't say I never give you guys (and gals) nothing!

I see so many folks make a mess of doing this - I thought I'd better show you the right way. Vintage cloth covered braid shielded cables are

11/08/2026

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After doing a few custom jobs in the past for Jazzmaster owners ... I've decided to use the jigs I've developed for those jobs to give Jazzm

22/07/2026

For those of you who liked my series on that forum that shall not be named - about rebuilding my eBay £50 double bass 'Frankie' - you can find it restored with all its pictures here :-)

This was originally published on a couple of forums - unfortunately the images on those sites disappeared when Imgur pulled out of the UK.

17/07/2026

As promised - when my Patreon tier 1 members have had the pick of my sample/demo/ cancelled order pickups I have opened a site page where you can see what's on offer! Don't contact me here if there's something you want, email me following the email address link on the site - this'll save confusion! If you want more discount - you can become a tier 1 member for less than the price of a cup of good coffee a month ... and get discount on all my range too!

Demo and sample pickup sale page

17/07/2026

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At the beginning of last month I had a particularly unpleasant accident - someone left an EV charging lead strung across a pavement near my

06/06/2026

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29/05/2026

Spent a happy twenty minutes goggling about on a step ladder (I hate heights) in the workshop fitting LED light banks ready to start filming for the launch of the YouTube channel. It'll be worth it ... it's amazing how much light it takes to get the space evenly lit. The first workshop sale is going well over on Patreon ... and getting a consignment of pickups ready to go out to Canada on Monday - busy busy!